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Archive for May 28th, 2009AHorseBlog.com – Horses in Need of New Homes and Equine AssistanceWith the economy the way it is everyone is doing their best to make ends meet these days. Unfortunately there are a lot of our friends, neighbors and show buddies that due to circumstances beyond their control can no longer manage to keep all or some of their horses and must find wonderful and safe homes for their equine family members. In response to this need this is a page devoted to assisting horses in need in hopes of finding someone who will be able to give them the love and home they have always known. Keep checking this page as it will be updated as new horses in need are listed. If you know anyone looking for a horse, please pass this link on to them so we can help these horses find good safe and loving homes. Ravenwood Farm’s Horses in Need Network None of the horses here are neglected or abused and the prospective new owners will deal directly with the current owners. Please look at the horses that are posted here and fill out the ‘Contact Us’ form at http://www.horsesinneed.vpweb.com and your inquiry will be forwarded to the owner right away and they will contact you. Please make sure that you list the horse’s name and the corresponding file number in the comment section of the Contact page. This website is strictly a network site to help the horses in need and Ravenwood Farm or Chris/Dale Dunn is not responsible nor directly involved with the placing of these horses. With the Dunn’s previous involvement in the equine support world, they saw the need to help people out that we knew had personal reasons to have to re-home their most precious equines. Ravenwood Farm receives no monetary gains or donations for providing this network – it is only to help the horses and the many people who due to circumstances beyond their control having to give up their best friends.
AHorseBlog.com – The May Nor’easter’s Effect on Us in North/Central Florida and Global WarmingThis isn’t equine related – exactly – but it is in the long run as we are all affected by global warming. A good example is the strange 2 weeks of heavy rain in Florida, starting with a nor’easter and now just heavy thunderstorms. The storms and flooding are so much so that it has threatened the potato and melon crops with the farmers losing millions of dollars not just in the loss of their crops, but for the workers who get paid to harvest the crops. May is not typically a rainy season for North Florida. the potato and melon crops were just a couple weeks before their harvest time when the nor’easter hit. It has affected many others, too in the way of heavy flooding of dirt and ashplalt roads stranding many people from getting to their jobs, groceries, children to the last days of school, UPS/Fed X deliveries – you name it. Luckily for us, we have 2 all-wheel drive SUVs, but we don’t have a 4-wheel drive truck, so my husband is getting hay and shavings a little bit at a time instead of by the truckload. What is scariest is the fact that we could get our horses out in a horse trailer even if we did have 4-wheel drive trucks. One road is too muddy at the entrance and has a huge drop hole off at one spot and the other road has 3 deep washouts which are even getting difficult to transverse in the all-wheel drive vehicles. A mini-van was stuck in one of the ‘holes’ a couple of days ago, so that blocked the whole road. My husband turned around and went the other road; coming home, that road was blocked by 2 big trucks, so he tried the other road and luckily they had moved the mini-van out by then. Not getting our horses out in an emergency like if we needed to take them to the University of Florida (UF) vet department or if some other catastrophe happened is a scary feeling. When you think of a disaster, you don’t always think of a nor’easter and heavy rains doing that much harm. It certainly has caused us a lot of hassle and there has been loss of income for my neighbors who depend on using their trucks and horse trailers for business or even for horse and rescue assistance. At least my little garden is producing a lot of green and baby lima beans, but many of my yellow squash have rotted on the vine (I have gotten 2 large batches
Anyway, I wanted to include this interesting article and link I read at Discovery.com’s site about Global Warming from a UF ecologist: Global warming’s “slow-motion time bomb” of trapped greenhouse gases in the Arctic’s thawing tundra may not go off quite as fast as once feared, a new study found. Even so, it remains a problem that in the long run is still likely to worsen global warming in an uncontrollable way, researchers reported. The study, published in Thursday’s issue of the journal Nature, looked at thawing parts of Alaska and found that greenhouse gas releases initially are sucked up by new plants as the Arctic gets warmer and greener. But that helpful effect doesn’t last. Eventually, between 15 and 50 years, those plants “can’t keep up” and get overwhelmed, said study lead author Ted Schuur, a University of Florida ecologist. Read more at http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/05/27/permafrost-arctic-warming.html |
). My new tomato plants are really loving the rain, though! But, if we just didn’t have all of this standing water around that of course, attracts mosquitoes, and you know we couldn’t get a fly-control truck down these roads right now…
